The lawyers recorded their statements against former president Pervez Musharraf citing that he had ordered all the courts to be shut down in the country when emergency was imposed. PHOTO: AFP/ FILE
Their statements cited that former president Pervez Musharraf had imposed emergency on November 3, 2007.
In his statement, Advocate Anwar Dar told The Express Tribune that after imposing emergency all the courts in the country were directed to shut down, including the district court in Rawalpindi where he was practicing.
"When I said I wanted to enter the court, I was taken under arrest," Dar said.
He said he remained imprisoned in the Gujjarwala jail for 20 days.
Judges of superior courts including Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry along with his family members were detained, he added.
The lawyers who were present corroborated Dar's statements.
The lawyers from the twin cities' court of Rawalpindi and Islamabad who recorded their statements as witnesses included Advocate Inamur Rahim, Advocate Anwar Dar, Advocate Raja Saimul Haq Satti, Advocate Tayyab Khalid amongst others.
The police were earlier asked by the Islamabad High Court to present a complete challan, with statements from the judges who were detained.
The hearing of the case is set to take place on June 6.
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Dictator Musharraf is reaping the fruit of the seeds sown by him.
Black sheep should also stand up against their PCO CJ for abrogating the constitution. Dispensation of selective justice will only create more trouble and lead to confrontation with unseen consequences.
Everybody in the whole world knows and all the media and papers have recorded when Pervez Musharraf had imposed emergency on November 3, 2007. Why these statements from the lawyers are needed as if it is a secret what happened when 60 judges and their families were thrown in detention indefinitely? Only the kangaroo courts can pretend that they need the proofs of something that has happened with so many people and there are recordings of CJ thrown in a car with his hair. Even the kids of judges were not allowed to go to school. This high judiciary believed all what a foreign national Mansoor Ijaz said without any signature or date on the memo. Why did they not need true evidence from authentic sources in that case? In Memo case the judges were judge and prosecutor at the same time even though prosecution is not judge’s task they have to remain neutral. When it comes to army generals these judges are so compliant that they need all the formalities as if there are doubts of Mush’s actions on Nov 3, 2007.